I was Gu Xizhou’s replacement for seven years. Even when passion took him in bed, he would only kiss the back of my neck.
Because his beloved had a cinnabar mole there.
Then, at the hospital, I met a girl who looked eighty percent like me. A vivid red mark bloomed on the back of her snow-white neck.
I calmly packed all my things and left a line of lipstick on the mirror: “She’s back. It’s time I stepped aside.”
But Gu Xizhou chased me all the way to the airport, eyes red as he pulled out a ring box. “After seven years, what makes you think I still can’t let her go?”
I smiled and nodded, then suddenly pulled open my collar to reveal my smooth, bare back. The fake cinnabar mole, carefully tattooed there, had long since been completely removed by laser.
Love and hurt, forgiveness and redemption, communication and misunderstanding, self-respect and romance, and how the past shapes the present. The story continually focuses on the misunderstandings, emotional disconnect, and outside interference from Song Qing between the leads, as well as how their character flaws cause them to hurt each other. It emphasizes their inner struggles, pain, and despair, and their slow journey toward awakening and change.
